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Core i7: Your essential guide to Intel's new killer
- reitzensteinm 18y agoI don't understand their complaint about native quad core versus dual dual dies. In practice, the performance penalty isn't that great, and the yields are twice as good. For a given sized chip, assuming evenly distributed faults, a die twice as big is four times as likely to have an error. Higher yields mean cheaper and faster (frequency is limited to the portion of a chip which can handle the lowest frequency). In fact, AMD agrees, because they're planning to use dual dies for their 8 and 12 core chips coming in 2009/10. Sure, native quad is elegant, but the end users don't have to touch the design!